Discussion If you could magically become somebody else - would you give life another try?

[Brink]

Yes! The world isn't all bad, and living can be lovely. All I'd want is a strong sense of self and identity, to come from a family oozing with love and to grow up with caring, healthy, empathetic interpersonal relationships. It would be perfect to be upper-middle-class, but I'd settle for an upbringing that instilled in me healthy boundaries and a family that's close and non-toxic.

 

[SadHam]

I think I would. Although I can recognise parts of my life that I'm so grateful for, I feel like I can't get the proper enjoyment from them, because I am stuck in my body, with my face, my voice, being myself. Does anybody relate to this? Self loathing I suppose.

I can relate to this a lot, women stuck in a mans body. I would try again, try to forget how shit and worthless I am if I could change my body. But who knows, maybe i would just feel the same. At least I would be depressed in the right flesh suit. But yea I fully understand what your feeling.

 

[RayoSinSol]

I don't know. Would I still be me, then? So at that point could I even still answer this question?

Well, if I could start this all over again as someone new, I'd want to be someone less curious about actually understanding the way the world works. Someone with more hunger and less depth. Could I "change into" another person, realistically? Possibly.

I feel a sense of grief imagining myself becoming someone new, the same way I feel a sense of grief imagining myself dying. It would take a lot of effort or very effective brainwashing, and I feel skeptical of myself being able to maintain that kind of state for long. Certainly not without much internal suffering.

For me, dying is as large an opportunity cost as becoming someone more ideal, from the perspective of what I imagine this world wants from me, ideally. It's just that dying is permanent and there will (hopefully) be no more suffering after it, whereas living lasts for probably several more decades and would involve much more suffering, while someone else inhabits my body.

 

[oneanonymous]

Yes, if I knew it would be a better life with financial stability and no physical and mental illnesses. Anxiety has ruined my life and is the cause of mostly all of my problems, including low income, and what makes dealing with my physical ailments much more difficult. It's the reason I developed depression and turned to medication that caused my akathisia that has lasted seven months now and I am just... done. I actually like myself, but I hate my life.

 

[itsamadworld]

Nope. There's something wrong with this place and being someone else wouldn't change that.

Well said, I couldn't agree more.....Perhaps, if there were a legit pill/ method to change the negatives of human nature, stop aging past a certain age, stop disease and the breakdown of the body, and to stop the planet from trying to kill us (sometimes painfully and slowly)all the time, and death could be allowed but only with dignity..... then i might give it another go, but I'd have to be sure it was the truth, because I don't trust this planet now......But I know death is typically a slow process for many people. For those who are imprisoned in long-term care facilities, many are being strong-armed into accepting life extending treatments because of pro-lifers tireless agenda. Working with the aged population, one gets to see it, how the aging process in this planet, and how it's handled, itself is just not my thing. I just want no part in this planet ever again on that basis alone. There definitely is something wrong with this place....

 

[Forgiveme]

Definitely not, i love myself

 

[Marktheghost]

Only if I can end my life whenever I want to next time if things don't work out again.

 

[a.n.kirillov]

If I were to become someone else, and that someone else would be someone who would give it another try, then yes, I would give it another try. If not, then no.

 

[Serinaxo]

Yes I would give it a go.. I often think about how different my life would be and where it would be at of all the things that have happened hadn't happened. I wish I didn't thought, because that just makes you feel more shit.

 

[TimeToBiteTheDust]

Sure.

 

[PrettyMoose]

I hate much of this world and the way it is run. Sure some of my depressiveness comes from my own personal problems, but another chunk of depressiveness comes from just how shitty this world is at large.

So if we're going to dream, I'd want to dream big and say no to switching with anyone on this shit planet, but yes to trying out being a part of an alien race from another solar system or galaxy. Their problems might turn out to be just as shitty as ours or even worse, but maybe just maybe they might be better.

 

[zi99]

Yes. I would appreciate every moment of my life, I would try to realize all my dreams, achieve all goals, and I would be infinitely grateful to fate or God (if there is one), thankful for the second attempt, I would be ready to do anything so that I had the opportunity go back in time and change some things there

 

[Klee]

Yes. I would appreciate every moment of my life, I would try to realize all my dreams, achieve all goals, and I would be infinitely grateful to fate or God (if there is one), thankful for the second attempt, I would be ready to do anything so that I had the opportunity go back in time and change some things there

Honestly, I feel the same way. Even if I could only go back to the beginning of my life as me, and re do it, I would change many things.

 

[The Dark Chaos]

Onlyy if I'd become a supernatural like a vampire or somethingg..I knoww its kind of childish but still..

 

[Shinbu]

No, and it wouldn't make me happy.

 

[porfin1234]

I would've just wanted to be me without the BPD - NPD traits. There's some goodness there. I just fed the bad for too long.

 

[Notabadguy]

I don't want to become somebody else, I only want to go back a year into the past, to avoid a big mistake. I made plenty more, but nothing like this. Ideally I would go back into my teens, but it's not necessary, going back a year into the past would be enough for me to fix things.

 

[darkhorse256]

Yes, because my memory wouldn't be messed up from PTSD.

 

[RepressedMind]

Yeah, I would. There are a lot of things I could do if I had another go at life, free from everything dragging me down now. Life can be interesting to live, but not for me.

 

[BPD Barbie]

Absolutely. I sometimes day dream about some magic happening that gives me a chance to start over. I get given a piece of paper and as much as I can fit on it, that will be my new life I will wake up to the next day. My absolute favourite daydream.

 

[Klee]

Absolutely. I sometimes day dream about some magic happening that gives me a chance to start over. I get given a piece of paper and as much as I can fit on it, that will be my new life I will wake up to the next day. My absolute favourite daydream.

I feel this. I used to write stories about a girl (me, but different) who had the kind of life I wanted. Hugs

 

[Remember to forget]

I would but as a bloke. I'm quite mascaline in my approach to life and I have never felt part of the female crowd so would be worth giving it a go just to see if it suited me better.

 

[lotus11]

No, I'm fucking tired

 

[Worthless_nobody]

I would rather never exist at all but if the choice was my life or someone else's I definitely would rather be someone else.

 

[muffin222]

No. The problem isn't my life or external circumstances so much as my ability to cope with life and my emotional experience, which has been seriously warped by childhood trauma

 

[a.n.kirillov]

Yes! The world isn't all bad, and living can be lovely. All I'd want is a strong sense of self and identity, to come from a family oozing with love and to grow up with caring, healthy, empathetic interpersonal relationships. It would be perfect to be upper-middle-class, but I'd settle for an upbringing that instilled in me healthy boundaries and a family that's close and non-toxic.

Sorry for OT, but how are you writing in Times?

 

[GoBack]

No. I'd still fuck it up. Wouldn't like to do that to another body

 

[I’mDone]

Yes. I know what a happy life should look like. I just wish I could experience it.

 

[FireFox]

Absolutely i dont want to be me anymore. I hate being me

I am emotionally immature ,stupid ( people tell me i am clever but i dont believe it), my life is going nowehere. Everyday i feel like i am nothing.

If i could magically be someone else

i would be living in a different city and working in the tech industry. I would own a small house and have a devoted and caring husband who really loves for the real person i am .
I wont want anything else as i would be happy.

 

[terry_a_davis]

Me 20 years ago, why isn't time travel possible yet?